National Digital Library of India

National Digital Library of India
Type of site
 Education
Headquarters Kharagpur, India
Employees <100 (Oct 2018)
Website ndl.iitkgp.ac.in
Users Increase 1,200,000+ (November 2017)
Current status Active

The National Digital library of India (NDLI) is a project under Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. The objective is to integrate several national and international digital libraries in one single web-portal. The NDLI provides free access to many books in English and the Indian languages.

Launch and growth

The Library was launched in pilot form in May 2016.[1][2] As of 2017, NDL hosts 7,203,195 items in its repository, with over 150,000 volumes in English.

Languages

The scanning of Indian language books has created an opportunity for developing Indian language optical character recognition (OCR) software. Books in Urdu and Persian are also available at the NDL. Examples include " Aligarh kee taaleemi tehreek" by Khwaja Ghulamus Sayyedain and Makateeb-e-Sanai by Professor Nazir Ahmad.

Access and restrictions

User registration is open to users from around the world. However, contents from some popular sources are only freely accessible to registered users. Some of these registration-only works are from sources such as:

  • World eBook Library
  • South Asia Archive
  • OECD iLibrary
  • Satyajit Ray Society

Delivery formats

Access can also be had via mobile app, available for Android at Google Play.[3]

Management

The Library is managed by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

See also

References

  1. ↑ Business Standard, "National Digital Library up in pilot stage", 25 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "MHRD Digital Library Press Release" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-02.
  3. ↑ NDL mobile app for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhrd.ndl
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